Thoughts, musings, and, hopefully, not too many redundancies on the world of business data. If you missed the irony in the previous sentence, you may struggle with my writing style.
Chris Brogan, one of the leading minds in the world of social media, just started a new job. And, he’s going through the new employee paperwork hassle (I think), which prompted this mini-rant:
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It’s interesting, as Chris is expressing the same frustration that we’ve all faced. WHY do I have to write in my name, date [...]
I was on-site at a client for a couple of days last week and, during a break, got into a discussion with their resident CRM system expert. This fellow had managed some crazy stuff in Siebel for a major credit card company and was now working with Salesforce.com and a mishmash of other systems for [...]
I got way backlogged (over a week — 150+ messages) on the webanalytics Yahoo! group. I started catching up last night, and then hit it again this morning.
This was the first I heard that WebTrends has had a major management shakeup (there’s another good article at MSN), with the CEO and a couple of other [...]
Three things I know: 1) My wife got the raw end of the deal when she married me, 2) I blog because it keeps my e-mails shorter, and 3) If you have the urge to talk about data usage in business, I'll do so until long after that desire has passed (for you). If you want to know more, check out my About Gilligan on Data page.